1. SimpleITK Historical Overview: Standing on the Shoulders of Giants
Ziv Yaniv1,2 , Bradley C. Lowekamp1,2
1National Institutes of Health 2Medical Science and Computing LLC

2. github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK
What is SimpleITK?
A simplified multi-language interface to the National Library of Medicine’s Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit (ITK). Available in: C++, Python, R, Java, C#, Lua, Ruby, TCL
github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK

3. In the Beginning There Was Data
“The Visible Human Male: A Technical Report", V. Spitzer et al., J. Am. Med. Inform. Assoc.,3(2), pp , 1996.

4. The Visible Human Project at its 25th Year Anniversary
Image-Guided Procedures, Robotic Interventions, and Modeling Conference
Room: California
Workshop Immediately After This Course (5:45 PM - 7:45 PM):
The Visible Human Project at its 25th Year Anniversary

5. Need to Analyze the Data
2002
Insight Segmentation and Registration Toolkit
“Engineering and Algorithm Design for an Image Processing API: A Technical Report on ITK - the Insight Toolkit”, T. S. Yoo et al., Stud. Health Technol. Inform., 85, pp , 2002.

6. Open Source

7. Commercial Entities Based on mailing list – Likely.
But we have no written testimony.

8. Why SimpleITK Change in programming expertise: ✓
Python.
Change in expectations:
No need to compile/build software.
Software should be easy to install.
Language Rank
Spectrum Ranking
1. Python
100.0
2. C++
99.7
3. Java
97.5
4. C
96.7
5. C#
89.4
6. PHP
84.9
7.R
82.9
8. JavaScript
82.6
9. Go
76.4
10. Matlab
72.8 ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓ ✓
“The 2018 Top Programming Languages”, IEEE Spectrum, S. Cass.

9. SimpleITK by the Numbers
A week in 12/2018:
18 Minor releases, 1 Major release.
35 Contributors.
9300 Commits.
210,140 lines of code.
Starred on GitHub: main repository > 230, notebook repository >200.
More than 200,000 downloads since 1/2013.
Release tags: git tag
Number of contributors: git log --format='%aN' | sort -u -k2; then count and remove people with multiple appearances (Dave Chen, David T. Chen…)
Number of commits in repo: git rev-list --all --count
Lines in repository: git ls-files | xargs wc -l

10. How to Support Cite us: Star us on GitHub:
Beare, B. C. Lowekamp, Z. Yaniv, “Image Segmentation, Registration and Characterization in R with SimpleITK”, J Stat Softw, 86(8),
Z. Yaniv, B. C. Lowekamp, H. J. Johnson, R. Beare, "SimpleITK Image-Analysis Notebooks: a Collaborative Environment for Education and Reproducible Research", J Digit Imaging.,  31(3): , 2018.
B. C. Lowekamp, D. T. Chen, L. Ibáñez, D. Blezek, "The Design of SimpleITK", Front. Neuroinform., 7:45. 
Star us on GitHub:
Main repository – github.com/SimpleITK/SimpleITK
Notebook repository – github.com/InsightSoftwareConsortium/SimpleITK-Notebooks